Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pron] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , it is quite simply that the religion has not lived up to the expectations of its followers , that is , it has provided for them none of the benefits that they were led to expect when they were first introduced to it . |
| 2 | I only felt well for one our of every four weeks . |
| 3 | These people bring with them something of the evangelist 's zeal . |
| 4 | He brought with him something of a reputation as a centre-half , but his Palace career , spread over five seasons , was spent largely as a full-back . |
| 5 | Montaine and I were not similar in any obvious way , but Jean-Claude may well have detected in me something of the quality he relied on in his sister . |
| 6 | We shall meet copies in which something of the original beauty seems to live through these disadvantages . |
| 7 | One man was whimpering in the corner and two others were playing a bizarre version of dominoes , in which none of the numbers matched . |
| 8 | Even worse , there are ILPs in which none of the rounded solutions is feasible ( Exercise 1 ) . |
| 9 | It will also be the first since 1979 in which none of the parties is expected to gain an outright majority . |
| 10 | We remember in particular from that section that there are conditions in which none of the steady state solutions is stable ; we left open the question of what happens then . |
| 11 | Besides , Gregory 's preface is in itself something of a rhetorical display , leading to a defence of his use of rustic speech . |
| 12 | In a provocative comparison of the failures of the French and Russian revolutions , he argued that the problem stemmed from the fact that no class , whether proletarian or bourgeoisie , can become the ruling class without taking upon itself something of the historical role of a ruling class — especially if at the same time it also considers that , history carries within itself its own cure' : |
| 13 | North Africa had brought out in him something of the stern Roman . |
| 14 | Perhaps I see in him something of the son I would like to have had , but never did . |
| 15 | Vision has in it something of the ‘ himma ’ of the sufis . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the question seemed to me something of a nonsense , as it involved the square root of a minus quantity . |
| 17 | It had to me something of the effect that arises from the turning up of the fresh soil , or of the first welcome breath of Spring . |
| 18 | He would , I think , have found Mrs Lavender 's attitude to him something of a challenge and it probably amused him to manipulate Mrs Kettle into defying her and then to observe her reactions . |
| 19 | They were thought to bring good luck to the wearer by extending to him something of the protective power of a Roman Emperor . |
| 20 | There were pubs in London which had a clientèle made up of original skinheads , whose age tended to be above 25 , and at which none of the new boots and braces or plastic skins would be tolerated . |